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Galápagos Islands

July 2024

  • Rosemary Grant in front of flower beds in bloom in the grounds of Guyot Hall, Princeton University, New Jersey.

    Biologist Rosemary Grant: ‘Evolution happens much quicker than Darwin thought’

    The evolutionary expert discusses the triumphs and challenges of the groundbreaking research on Galápagos Islands finches she undertook with her husband, Peter

June 2024

  • Dr Alex Hearn and his colleagues in a boat in fading light tagging a shark in the Galápagos marine reserve.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Where do sharks hang out?’: the race to find safe spaces for the Galápagos’ ocean-going predators

    Scientists are tagging sharks to map Pacific migration routes in a bid to expand marine reserves before more of these endangered species fall prey to illegal industrial fishing

May 2024

  • One of John Gould’s commissions: a hand-colored lithograph by Henry Constantine Richter of a Lady Amherst’s pheasant.

    ‘Exceptional’: rare books of illustrations from Darwin’s ‘bird man’ on sale for £2m

    The set of folios published by John Gould will be presented at Firsts book fair in London in mid-May

April 2024

  • A marine iguana swimming in the sea

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Currents bring life – and plastics’: animals of Galápagos live amid mounds of waste

    As diplomats search for a deal to curb the world’s growing problem of plastic, piles of bottles, buoys, nets and packaging keep building up in what should be a pristine environment

March 2024

  • Galapagos land turtles in the Galapagos National Park in Santa Cruz island, Ecuador

    From the agencies
    Galapagos biodiversity under threat – in pictures

    Greenpeace has called for the creation of a high seas protected zone under a new UN treaty to secure a much wider area around Ecuador’s Galapagos archipelago, whose unique fauna and flora inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution

February 2024

  • An elderly white man with a sombre face stands in a studio holding a black-and-white photograph with other prints on the wall behind him

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Photographer Sebastião Salgado at 80: ‘They say I was an aesthete of misery’

    The legendary photojournalist looks back on a life committed to documenting people and the planet, and explains why nature became his focus

September 2023

  • scientists inspect a bird

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Galápagos Islands tightens biosecurity as avian flu threatens unique species

    Scientists confirm three birds have died from virus as park authorities redouble efforts to protect islands’ endemic birds

June 2023

  • Ecuador says its $1.6bn deal will help pay for Galápagos Islands conservation.

    The age of extinction
    Are debt-for-nature swaps the way forward for conservation?

    Agreements to reduce developing countries’ debt burden in exchange for spending on nature will be on the agenda at a finance summit in Paris this week

April 2023

  • 'Full of life': scientists discover pristine deep-sea Galapagos coral reefs – video

  • HOV Alvin’s manipulator arm collects samples from a rocky outcrop on a reef populated by cold-water corals, squat lobsters, anemones, basket stars and deep-sea fish.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Scientists discover pristine deep-sea Galápagos reef ‘teeming with life’

November 2022

  • Marine scientist Alex Herne tagging a shark in Ecuador

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘It’s very political’: the almost impossible job of being a marine planner

    From the Galápagos to Bermuda, ocean planners often find themselves caught between two worlds – choosing between fisheries and fish

June 2022

  • Leonardo DiCaprio is a founding board member of Re:wild.

    Wild world
    Rewilding the Galápagos can be a model for a new way to coexist with nature

    Danny Rueda Córdova and Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Fernanda the tortoise

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Fantastic giant tortoise’ species thought extinct for 100 years found alive

January 2022

  • This photo released by the the National Galapagos Park communications office shows, from above, lava from the eruption of Wolf Volcano on Isabela Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. (Wilson Cabrera/National Galapagos Park communications office via AP)

    Galápagos islands volcano erupts spewing lava and clouds of ash

    Wolf Volcano, the tallest mountain in the Pacific archipelago, began erupting shortly before midnight on Wednesday

May 2021

  • Galápagos tortoise found alive revealed as species thought extinct 100 years ago – video

    Tortoise found on Fernandina Island in 2019 identified as Chelonoidis phantasticus species

  • ECUADOR-GALAPAGOS-TORTOISE-DISCOVERY<br>A specimen of the giant Galapagos tortoise Chelonoidis phantasticus, thought to have gone extint about a century ago, is seen at the Galapagos National Park on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos Archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean 1000 km off the coast of Ecuador, on February 19, 2019. - The adult female was found earlier in the day during an expedition in Fernandina Island, in the Galapagos, Ecuadorean Environment Minister Marcelo Mata announcement on Tuesday. (Photo by Rodrigo BUENDIA / AFP)RODRIGO BUENDIA/AFP/Getty Images

    Giant tortoise found in Galápagos a species considered extinct a century ago

    Ecuador confirmed giant turtle found two years ago on Fernandina Island is the Chelonoidis phantasticus species

    • Brief letters
      Vaccine availability is the issue, not hesitancy

    • Galápagos rock formation Darwin’s Arch collapses from erosion

    • Leonardo DiCaprio leads $43m pledge to restore the Galápagos Islands

March 2021

  • A sea lion hunting sardines in the Galápagos. As industrial fishing has increased off the archipelago, 14 species have become more endangered.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    The fight for the Galápagos: race to expand reserve as fishing fleets circle

    Ecuador’s president to decide on proposal to expand islands’ marine reserve, seen as vital to protect world heritage site from fishing industry
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